Sweet Machine by Mark Doty

Author:Mark Doty [Mark Doty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061755026
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

in a single hue: gothic ruin,

country views unfolding

in exactly that 1950s

elementary-school-fountain-pen

blue. A laundress scrubs

by the riverbank. A priest reads.

Variable beasts

(a clutch of sheep, a cow or two)

stand up to their haunches

in the stream, number depending

on whether one studies the plate

or saucer, the platter or tureen.

Which is why, I imagine, you

and Yeats might like it: gestures

of surprise, inside the regularity

of form, hooved or human actors

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